Headlines for Saturday, August 7, 2010

In what could be her final start in California, the great Zenyatta remained undefeated with her 18th consecutive win in rather routine fashion by a neck in the $300,000 Clement L. Hirsch Stakes (gr. I) Aug. 7 at Del Mar.

Patrick Valenzuela, a five-time champion at Del Mar but riding at the seashore for the first time in three years, will ride 2-1 morning line favorite J P's Gusto in the $150,000 Best Pal Stakes (gr. II) Aug. 8.

Jockey Jermaine Bridgmohan was cleared to ride by doctors at Albany Medical Center Aug. 7 after his mount in the third race at Saratoga Race Course kicked him as he was getting a leg up in the paddock.